Online information bases

Become a subscribing member of UK NARIC and enjoy online access to the largest information base of international qualifications in the world.

Over 4,000 qualifications from secondary to postgraduate level are detailed, spanning 200 countries, former countries and territories, with detailed information
on education systems and qualification frameworks. There is also information on professional and vocational frameworks.

Pop-up menus, diagrams and colour-coded charts make the resources easy to use and understand and enable comparison and mapping to UK qualifications and frameworks.

UK NARIC’s information bases are of benefit to:

Any organisation recruiting internationally

University, school and college admissions teams and international departments

Professional bodies and chartered institutes

Advisers to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees

Education councils

Careers advisers

Government and ministries of education

The information bases comprise:

International Comparisons (IC) covers academic, vocational and professional qualifications from 200 countries, former countries and territories around the world.

International Grade Comparisons (IGC) supplements IC with grade distributions and grade profiles from over 65 key feeder countries, mapped to UK comparator qualifications,
so you can identify the best applicants and candidates.

European Grade Distributions compares and maps grading systems and grade distributions from across Europe, for those recruiting from inside the EU.

European Secondary Qualifications provides detailed information on the secondary education structures and streams and secondary qualifications across the 27 EU
member states and EEA countries.

The specialised databases:

Teaching Comparisons, and

Childcare Comparisons detail the training systems and qualifications for these sectors spanning over 70 countries.

UK NARIC’s information bases help you to identify and access the best professional talent and the students with most potential. They assist you in ensuring compliance
and in mitigating risk, they build in-house expertise and they reduce costs by accelerating the screening process and reducing processing times.

Specialist applications are assisted, such as recognition of professional status for applications to teach and for admission to other professions; and immigration
applications, such as identifying eligibility for visas under Points Based Systems.

Access UK NARIC’s information bases by subscribing to one of our annual
membership packages
– there are six to choose from, to suit a wide range of requirements.

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Teacher Registration Manager
General Teaching Council Scotland